Re: Lessons from commit fest

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lessons from commit fest
Date: 2008-04-16 17:12:37
Message-ID: 20080416101237.724cf67a@commandprompt.com
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

>
> If the patch submitters hasn't read the developers' FAQ, we assume
> they are not interested in improving the style of their patch.

I think that point is fairly flawed in consideration. I know for a fact
that I have had to repeat even to long time contributors source
references for information even though they new about it previously.
Yourself included.

People get in a hurry, they should be reminded with reference.

JD, thanks for the patch but you missed foo.. please check 1.5 of the
Developers FAQ.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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